MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Faulkner University was looking to snap its losing streak against one of the nation's best team's this afternoon when it hosted No. 15 Spring Hill in a Southern States Athletic Conference series here at Wynn Field. The Badgers showed why they jumped seven spots in this week's poll when they cruised by the home team 5-1 and 6-3 to secure the sweep.

Spring Hill is armed with one of the NAIA's best pitchers in Caroline Sagrera. The freshman leads the nation in total strikeouts with 299 and her 1.16 ERA is the best in the league. She also ranked third in the nation in wins with 25 entering tonight's matchup and the right-hander improved in every category.

Sagrera kept Faulkner guessing at the plate and allowed just two hits in five innings of work in Game 1.

She topped that performance with a no-hitter in her five innings from the circle in the second event and allowed just one earned run over all ten innings. Sagrera had 16 strikeouts on the day and won both games.

Faulkner's Mattie Dotson (6-14) scattered nine hits over seven innings and allowed four earned runs in the Game 1 loss. She had four strikeouts.

Erin Byrd drove in the Lady Eagles' lone run in the opener and went to work again in the third inning of Game 2 when her sacrifice fly brought in Faulkner's first score of the event.

Though the home team trailed by just a run at that point, the Badgers ignited in their subsequent at-bat and extended their lead to five. Avery Mott ushered new life into the Faulkner offense when she crushed an RBI-double off the left field fence in the bottom of the seventh.

Tia Rogers knocked in anther run just moments later, but Spring Hill managed to extinguish the fire before it got out of control. Tori Hollis (0-1) threw her first complete game of the season and allowed eight hits and six earned runs in the loss.

Faulkner dropped to 19-25-1 overall and 5-20-1 in the brutal SSAC. The Lady Eagles have one more shot at breaking their 18-game losing streak when they host division foe Mobile at Wynn Field on Wednesday. The doubleheader is set for 2 p.m.